Jail this teenager for being a thoughtless cur. And her mother too.

Aside from the absurdity that is a father being thrown in jail because his daughter, who doesn’t even live with him, has failed to attain high school equivalency, (ostensibly for contributing to the delinquency of a minor), I have to question one other thing.

Both the mother and the daughter freely admit that he had nothing  to do with her failure to pass her GED.  They both contend that he should not be held responsible for her daughter, who has an infant and is engaged, almost 19 years old.

So then why did she not pass her GED?  Surely this did not come as a surprise to them.  They knew he was going to be sent to jail if she didn’t pass.  But yet they did nothing to stop it.  The daughter herself I hold in particular contempt.  It doesn’t sound like she hates her father.  But she has sure acted like it, forcing him to take upon himself the punishment that she probably deserves, if for no other reason than being so selfish as to send her father to jail.

The libertarian in me questions the point or need for truancy laws, or what the government even cares if a person simply refuses to permit herself to be educated.  But I am disgusted that this man has to pay the price for someone else’s misbehaviour, when he had absolutely zero control over the situation.

Might as well just sentence him to jail for allowing a stray dog to pee on the lawn in the middle of the night.